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Gevorg Emin (Armenian: Գևորգ Էմին, born Karlen Muradyan; September 30, 1919 – July 11, 1998) was an Armenianpoet, essayist, and translator.

Biography

Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak.

In 1927, his family moved to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In 1936 he finished secondary school; in 1940 he graduated from the local Polytechnical Institute as a hydraulic engineer.

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After graduation he designed and supervised the building of a hydroelectricpower station which is still producing electricity. The power station remained his only engineering accomplishment.

In school, Emin met Armenia's leading poet Yegishe Charents, who died in 1937 in a Soviet prison.

Emin recalls in his preface to For You on New Year's Day:

Today if I write instead of building canals and power plants it is due to two things: the impact of meeting Yeghishe Charents, and second, the touch of ancient manuscripts at the Matenadaran librar